Gaurav Priyolkar forced the electrons to say:
> I want to know if all mail readers can parse underlined and bold text.
No.
> I know that mutt can,
Well, it does that only for certain $TERM envs, it doesn't with my
personal colour settings.
> but I wanted to see if all the rest can before using underlined or
> bold text in mails in the future.
Don't do that. The text of an email should be just printable ASCII. Nothing
more. Those control-H and other stuff are not.
> The word on the next line should be underlined:
> _f_o_o
>
> The word on the next line should be bold:
> bbaarr
See what you sent me? Stuff that belongs to /dev/null. The general norm for
emphasise on the Internet is _underline_, *bold* and /italics/.
> Did pine, kmail, netscape, outlook, etc. show foo/bar properly?
My mutt didn't.
You forgot one thing - the mutt manual says (quote verbatim)
Also, the internal pager supports a couple other advanced features.
For one, it will accept and translate the ``standard'' nroff sequences
for bold and underline. These sequences are a series of either the
letter, backspace (^H), the letter again for bold or the letter,
backspace, ``_'' for denoting underline. Mutt will attempt to display
these in bold and underline respectively if your terminal supports
them. If not, you can use the bold and underline ``color'' objects to
specify a color or mono attribute for them.
The words to remember are "if your terminal supports them". There are many
terminal types which don't.
Binand
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